Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.
ADAM YOUNGPort Blue’ is my attempt at re-creating the music I want to hear and the emotions I want to feel.”
More Adam Young Quotes
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Their stunned silence was always very reassuring.
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Tie my handlebars to the stars so I stay on track & if my intentions stray I’ll wrench them away,then I’ll take my leave & I won’t even look back
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So for me it’s very good to just be able to re-charge and just disappear and escape from reality and that’s usually when I write most of my lyrics and my songs.
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Unearthing buried bits of nostalgia from deep within and spreading the broken, jagged pieces out in front of you like a display of junk at a garage sale.
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I’m not so talented at planning things out or having schedules before or sticking to the plan per se
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I’d probably go to see Saturn first-thing and see as close to those rings as I can get and see if I can fly by one of them and try and put one of my hands through them.
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Hang on for dear life. You’ve got a better grip than you realize.
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And when you’re a perfectionist little monster, it makes it even harder.
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Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength
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For me, it’s always best to just push everything out and just disappear by myself alone somewhere – and it’s kind of like a need of mine.
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But I guess of those few scenarios, none of them have been like… I’m not married.
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A boy and a girl started dating after he backed his car into hers.
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As I’m so often reminded what a priceless gift my life is
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Like, if I go to a restaurant and I order food, I always just eat one thing at a time.
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And show up in a place I never thought I’d ever be and have kids in the same room singing these songs I’d written so far away. To me, that’s so surreal.
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The warlords–of war and peace–destroyed so much, not only what existed, but all those new things that could have existed, if only individuals were left in peace.
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Usually, whatever’s in front of me is what I’m focused on and it’s 100% on that and then I kind of move from one thing to the next.
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Sometimes the good fight feels impossible, but I for one, am not giving up.
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I am fallen, flawed and imperfect.
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I’m a studio guy. That’s really what I love the most.
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I tend to have to just get away from it all, so it is nice when touring to be able to come home for a week or two and close the door and not really see anybody.
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Stay in the Word. The moment you start letting go of that, you’re on the road to compromise.
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And a lot of times, they would say to me, “Why are you so quiet? What’s wrong with you?”
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I kind of tend to do most of my adventures in my mind.
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Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.
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I ache with everything in me to make it count, so that when I finally cross the finish line, I’ll hear the words, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.
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